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Nearly 9-in-10 smartphone owners have used their phones in the past 30 days to perform a real-time query. (via Just-In-Time Information Through Mobile Connections - Pew Research Center)
Young reporters tend to think they need a byline from The New York Times to make a difference in the world. If they really want to have an impact, get a job with a community paper, and start asking the tough questions that no one ever asked before."
— Samantha Swindler, managing editor of the Corbin (Ky.) Times-Tribune, explaining how 2 twentysomething journalists brought down a corrupt Kentucky sheriff
We’re switching to Facebook comments because building or maintaining our own system does not seem like a good use of our company resources and because we believe fixed identities will make the comment threads more civilized, engaging and less threatened by marauding trolls and bad (comment) actors."
— Josh Marshall, Talking Points Memo
Social media platforms are like different countries with different languages and different customs. Certainly there are many aspects of them that overlap, but I think the key to being successful on a social platform is having a keen understanding of what makes each unique community tick. For instance, Tumblr thrives on strong visual material; Reddit is great for its crowd-sourced Q & A capabilities; Twitter is an essential platform for news and events, etc."
— New York Times social media editor Lexi Mainland, in How The New York Times does social media
One of 12 New Yorker covers you were never meant to see. “Zohar Lazar’s image of gay U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan kissing can be seen as either a celebration of tolerance in a repressive place or an example of America imposing its values where they are not welcome—or both.”
The fact that the president is now incorporating hashtags into his speeches shows how Twitter is redefining the means by which politicians shape, distribute and refine their messages."
The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks."
— Former Facebook employee Jeff Hammerbacher, in This Tech Bubble Is Different - BusinessWeek
